© by Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)
A child asleep in its own life
Language: English
Among the old men that you know [ ... ]
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Authorship:
- by Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955), "A child asleep in its own life", appears in The Palm at the End of the Mind, copyright © [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Ned Rorem (1923 - 2022), "A child asleep in its own life" [ soprano and piano ], from Last Poems of Wallace Stevens, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
This text was added to the website: 2010-11-03
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